January Sales | 1960’s Big E Levi’s 505 

Found these beauties stashed deep in the rails of one of the many brick lane vintage shops. It’s a rarity to see old valuable denim in vintage shops these days (in Europe) and it tends to be displayed at ludicrous prices high above the till. Unfortunately for me the shop staff had actually latched on to the fact they were big E and priced them accordingly. After a quick barter with the duty manager I walked out with a wearable (34” waist) pair of selvage 505’s well below market value. Good start to the year!

For those that remember, one of the first posts I made was about a pair of selvage 505’s, funnily enough these are identical in every way to the year of production.

Big E red tab (pre-1971)

Selvage matchpocket

Gripper Zipper

Stamped no. 5 just like the other 505’s

60’s silver base rivets

single stitched pockets

Selvage